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Du B, Xiao X, Wang H, Li W, Xia Z, Yang P, Huang SK, Yuan R, Liu J, Han M, Zou Y, Zhu J, He D, Lyu J, Jin X, Xu X, Wang J, Yang H, Xiao L, Liu X, Kristiansen K. Evaluation of the Impact of BaP Exposure on the Gut Microbiota and Allergic Responses in an OVA-Sensitized Mouse Model. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES 2023; 131:67004. [PMID: 37267060 DOI: 10.1289/ehp11874] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Exposure to environmental pollutants, including benzo[a]pyrene (BaP), has been implicated in allergic diseases and intestinal microbiota homeostasis, but the environment-microbiota-immunity triangular relationship and to what extent BaP-induced remodeling of the gut microbiota contributes to intestinal allergic inflammation remain to be established. OBJECTIVES We investigated the impact of BaP on intestinal allergic inflammation and examined the relationship between this effect and gut microbiota dysbiosis. We explored the potential ability of intestinal bacteria to degrade BaP and alleviate cytotoxicity as a detoxification strategy to counteract the effects of BaP exposure. METHODS We combined microbiome shotgun metagenomics with animal histological and intestinal allergic inflammatory responses to assess the effects of BaP (50μg/mouse per day) in a 23-d toxicity test in antigen-induced allergic female mice. In addition, genome annotation, quantitative analysis of BaP, and in vitro cytotoxicity-tests using CaCo-2 cells were conducted to infer the role of intestinal bacteria in BaP detoxification. RESULTS BaP exposure impacted the taxonomic composition and the functional potential of the gut microbiota and aggravated antigen-induced intestinal allergic inflammatory responses. The level of inflammatory cytokines correlated with the abundance of specific bacterial taxa, including Lachnospiraceae bacterium 28-4 and Alistipes inops. We identified 614 bacteria harboring genes implicated in the degradation of BaP, and 4 of these bacterial strains were shown to significantly reduce the cytotoxicity of BaP to CaCo-2 cells in vitro. DISCUSSION Using allergic female mice as a model, we investigated the relationship between BaP, microbiota, and host immune reactions, highlighting the role of gut bacteria in BaP-aggravated allergic reactions. Our findings offer novel insight toward establishing the causal relationship between BaP exposure and the occurrence of allergic disorders. Identifying gut bacteria that degrade BaP may provide new strategies for ameliorating BaP cytotoxicity. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11874.
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- Beibei Du
- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- School of Biology and Biological Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, China
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- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, China
- Department of Allergy, Third Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Department of Medicine, Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Detection and Intervention of Human Intestinal Microbiome, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Detection and Intervention of Human Intestinal Microbiome, Shenzhen, China
- Qingdao-Europe Advanced Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Qingdao-Europe Advanced Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Shenzhen Engineering Laboratory of Detection and Intervention of Human Intestinal Microbiome, Shenzhen, China
- Qingdao-Europe Advanced Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Respiratory Disease for Allergy at Shenzhen University, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Allergy and Immunology, Shenzhen University School of Medicine, Shenzhen, China
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- BGI-Shenzhen, Shenzhen, China
- Laboratory of Genomics and Molecular Biomedicine, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Qingdao-Europe Advanced Institute for Life Sciences, Qingdao, China
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Chimeric inheritance and crown-group acquisitions of carbon fixation genes within Chlorobiales: Origins of autotrophy in Chlorobiales and implication for geological biomarkers. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0275539. [PMID: 36227849 PMCID: PMC9560492 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0275539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2022] [Accepted: 09/16/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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The geological record of microbial metabolisms and ecologies primarily consists of stable isotope fractionations and the diagenetic products of biogenic lipids. Carotenoid lipid biomarkers are particularly useful proxies for reconstructing this record, providing information on microbial phototroph primary productivity, redox couples, and oxygenation. The biomarkers okenane, chlorobactane, and isorenieratene are generally considered to be evidence of anoxygenic phototrophs, and provide a record that extends to 1.64 Ga. The utility of the carotenoid biomarker record may be enhanced by examining the carbon isotopic ratios in these products, which are diagnostic for specific pathways of biological carbon fixation found today within different microbial groups. However, this joint inference assumes that microbes have conserved these pathways across the duration of the preserved biomarker record. Testing this hypothesis, we performed phylogenetic analyses of the enzymes constituting the reductive tricarboxylic acid (rTCA) cycle in Chlorobiales, the group of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria usually implicated in the deposition of chlorobactane and isorenieretane. We find phylogenetically incongruent patterns of inheritance across all enzymes, indicative of horizontal gene transfers to both stem and crown Chlorobiales from multiple potential donor lineages. This indicates that a complete rTCA cycle was independently acquired at least twice within Chlorobiales and was not present in the last common ancestor. When combined with recent molecular clock analyses, these results predict that the Mesoproterzoic lipid biomarker record diagnostic for Chlorobiales should not preserve isotopic fractionations indicative of a full rTCA cycle. Furthermore, we conclude that coupling isotopic and biomarker records is insufficient for reliably reconstructing microbial paleoecologies in the absence of a complementary and consistent phylogenomic narrative.
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Hoffmann M, Fernandez Cano Luna DS, Xiao S, Stegemüller L, Rief K, Heravi KM, Lilge L, Henkel M, Hausmann R. Towards the Anaerobic Production of Surfactin Using Bacillus subtilis. Front Bioeng Biotechnol 2020; 8:554903. [PMID: 33324620 PMCID: PMC7726195 DOI: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.554903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2020] [Accepted: 10/19/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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The anaerobic growth of B. subtilis to synthesize surfactin poses an alternative strategy to conventional aerobic cultivations. In general, the strong foam formation observed during aerobic processes represents a major obstacle. Anaerobic processes have, amongst others, the distinct advantage that the total bioreactor volume can be exploited as foaming does not occur. Recent studies also reported on promising product per biomass yields. However, anaerobic growth in comparison to aerobic processes has several disadvantages. For example, the overall titers are comparably low and cultivations are time-consuming due to low growth rates. B. subtilis JABs24, a derivate of strain 168 with the ability to synthesize surfactin, was used as model strain in this study. Ammonium and nitrite were hypothesized to negatively influence anaerobic growth. Ammonium with initial concentrations up to 0.2 mol/L was shown to have no significant impact on growth, but increasing concentrations resulted in decreased surfactin titers and reduced nitrate reductase expression. Anaerobic cultivations spiked with increasing nitrite concentrations resulted in prolonged lag-phases. Indeed, growth rates were in a similar range after the lag-phase indicating that nitrite has a neglectable effect on the observed decreasing growth rates. In bioreactor cultivations, the specific growth rate decreased with increasing glucose concentrations during the time course of both batch and fed-batch processes to less than 0.05 1/h. In addition, surfactin titers, overall Y P/X and Y P/S were 53%, ∼42%, and ∼57% lower than in serum flask with 0.190 g/L, 0.344 g/g and 0.015 g/g. The Y X/S, on the contrary, was 30% lower in the serum flask with 0.044 g/g. The productivities q were similar with ∼0.005 g/(g⋅h). However, acetate strongly accumulated during cultivation and was posed as further metabolite that might negatively influence anaerobic growth. Acetate added to anaerobic cultivations in a range from 0 g/L up to 10 g/L resulted in a reduced maximum and overall growth rate μ by 44% and 30%, respectively. To conclude, acetate was identified as a promising target for future process enhancement and strain engineering. Though, the current study demonstrates that the anaerobic cultivation to synthesize surfactin represents a reasonable perspective and feasible alternative to conventional processes.
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- Mareen Hoffmann
- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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- Department of Bioprocess Engineering (150k), Institute of Food Science and Biotechnology (150), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
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Reed JM, Olson S, Brees DF, Griffin CE, Grove RA, Davis PJ, Kachman SD, Adamec J, Somerville GA. Coordinated regulation of transcription by CcpA and the Staphylococcus aureus two-component system HptRS. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0207161. [PMID: 30540769 PMCID: PMC6291074 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0207161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/13/2018] [Accepted: 10/25/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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The success of Staphylococcus aureus as a pathogen is due in part to its ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions using signal transduction pathways, such as metabolite- responsive regulators and two-component systems. S. aureus has a two-component system encoded by the gene pair sav0224 (hptS) and sav0223 (hptR) that regulate the hexose phosphate transport (uhpT) system in response to extracellular glucose-6-phosphate. Glycolytic intermediates such as glucose-6-phosphate are important carbon sources that also modulate the activity of the global metabolite-responsive transcriptional regulator CcpA. Because uhpT has a putative CcpA binding site in its promoter and it is regulated by HptR, it was hypothesized the regulons of CcpA and HptR might intersect. To determine if the regulatory domains of CcpA and HptRS overlap, ccpA was deleted in strains SA564 and SA564-ΔhptRS and growth, metabolic, proteomic, and transcriptional differences were assessed. As expected, CcpA represses hptS and hptR in a glucose dependent manner; however, upon CcpA derepression, the HptRS system functions as a transcriptional activator of metabolic genes within the CcpA regulon. Importantly, inactivation of ccpA and hptRS altered sensitivity to fosfomycin and ampicillin in the absence of exogenous glucose-6-phosphate, indicating that both CcpA and HptRS modulate antibiotic susceptibility.
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- Joseph M. Reed
- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Unaffiliated, Honey Creek, Iowa, United States of America
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- Department of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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- School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States of America
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Eswarappa SM, Potdar AA, Sahoo S, Sankar S, Fox PL. Metabolic origin of the fused aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase, glutamyl-prolyl-tRNA synthetase. J Biol Chem 2018; 293:19148-19156. [PMID: 30309984 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.ra118.004276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2018] [Revised: 10/03/2018] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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About 1 billion years ago, in a single-celled holozoan ancestor of all animals, a gene fusion of two tRNA synthetases formed the bifunctional enzyme, glutamyl-prolyl-tRNA synthetase (EPRS). We propose here that a confluence of metabolic, biochemical, and environmental factors contributed to the specific fusion of glutamyl- (ERS) and prolyl- (PRS) tRNA synthetases. To test this idea, we developed a mathematical model that centers on the precursor-product relationship of glutamic acid and proline, as well as metabolic constraints on free glutamic acid availability near the time of the fusion event. Our findings indicate that proline content increased in the proteome during the emergence of animals, thereby increasing demand for free proline. Together, these constraints contributed to a marked cellular depletion of glutamic acid and its products, with potentially catastrophic consequences. In response, an ancient organism invented an elegant solution in which genes encoding ERS and PRS fused to form EPRS, forcing coexpression of the two enzymes and preventing lethal dysregulation. The substantial evolutionary advantage of this coregulatory mechanism is evidenced by the persistence of EPRS in nearly all extant animals.
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- Sandeep M Eswarappa
- From the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India,
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- F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90048, and
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- From the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
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- From the Department of Biochemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio 44195
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Han LL, Shao HH, Liu YC, Liu G, Xie CY, Cheng XJ, Wang HY, Tan XM, Feng H. Transcriptome profiling analysis reveals metabolic changes across various growth phases in Bacillus pumilus BA06. BMC Microbiol 2017; 17:156. [PMID: 28693413 PMCID: PMC5504735 DOI: 10.1186/s12866-017-1066-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2017] [Accepted: 07/04/2017] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Bacillus pumilus can secret abundant extracellular enzymes, and may be used as a potential host for the industrial production of enzymes. It is necessary to understand the metabolic processes during cellular growth. Here, an RNA-seq based transcriptome analysis was applied to examine B. pumilus BA06 across various growth stages to reveal metabolic changes under two conditions. RESULTS Based on the gene expression levels, changes to metabolism pathways that were specific to various growth phases were enriched by KEGG analysis. Upon entry into the transition from the exponential growth phase, striking changes were revealed that included down-regulation of the tricarboxylic acid cycle, oxidative phosphorylation, flagellar assembly, and chemotaxis signaling. In contrast, the expression of stress-responding genes was induced when entering the transition phase, suggesting that the cell may suffer from stress during this growth stage. As expected, up-regulation of sporulation-related genes was continuous during the stationary growth phase, which was consistent with the observed sporulation. However, the expression pattern of the various extracellular proteases was different, suggesting that the regulatory mechanism may be distinct for various proteases. In addition, two protein secretion pathways were enriched with genes responsive to the observed protein secretion in B. pumilus. However, the expression of some genes that encode sporulation-related proteins and extracellular proteases was delayed by the addition of gelatin to the minimal medium. CONCLUSIONS The transcriptome data depict global alterations in the genome-wide transcriptome across the various growth phases, which will enable an understanding of the physiology and phenotype of B. pumilus through gene expression.
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- Lin-Li Han
- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Bio-resources and Eco-environment, Ministry of Education, Sichuan Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
- College of Life Sciences, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610064 Sichuan People’s Republic of China
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Metabolic determinants in Listeria monocytogenes anaerobic listeriolysin O production. Arch Microbiol 2017; 199:827-837. [PMID: 28289786 PMCID: PMC5504256 DOI: 10.1007/s00203-017-1355-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2017] [Accepted: 02/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Listeria monocytogenes is a human pathogen and a facultative anaerobe. To better understand how anaerobic growth affects L. monocytogenes pathogenesis, we first showed that anaerobic growth led to decreased growth and changes in surface morphology. Moreover, compared to aerobically grown bacteria, anaerobically grown L. monocytogenes established higher level of invasion but decreased intracellular growth and actin polymerization in cultured cells. The production of listeriolysin O (LLO) was significantly lower in anaerobic cultures—a phenotype observed in wild type and isogenic mutants lacking transcriptional regulators SigB or CodY or harboring a constitutively active PrfA. To explore potential regulatory mechanisms, we established that the addition of central carbon metabolism intermediates, such as acetate, citrate, fumarate, pyruvate, lactate, and succinate, led to an increase in LLO activity in the anaerobic culture supernatant. These results highlight the regulatory role of central carbon metabolism in L. monocytogenes pathogenesis under anaerobic conditions.
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Cai W, Cai X, Yang Y, Yan S, Zhang H. Transcriptional Control of Dual Transporters Involved in α-Ketoglutarate Utilization Reveals Their Distinct Roles in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli. Front Microbiol 2017; 8:275. [PMID: 28270808 PMCID: PMC5318444 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2017.00275] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2016] [Accepted: 02/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
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Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are the primary causative agents of urinary tract infections. Some UPEC isolates are able to infect renal proximal tubule cells, and can potentially cause pyelonephritis. We have previously shown that to fulfill their physiological roles renal proximal tubule cells accumulate high concentrations of α-ketoglutarate (KG) and that gene cluster c5032–c5039 contribute to anaerobic utilization of KG by UPEC str. CFT073, thereby promoting its in vivo fitness. Given the importance of utilizing KG for UPEC, this study is designed to investigate the roles of two transporters KgtP and C5038 in KG utilization, their transcriptional regulation, and their contributions to UPEC fitness in vivo. Our phylogenetic analyses support that kgtP is a widely conserved locus in commensal and pathogenic E. coli, while UPEC-associated c5038 was acquired through horizontal gene transfer. Global anaerobic transcriptional regulators Fumarate and nitrate reduction (FNR) and ArcA induced c5038 expression in anaerobiosis, and C5038 played a major role in anaerobic growth on KG. KgtP was required for aerobic growth on KG, and its expression was repressed by FNR and ArcA under anaerobic conditions. Analyses of FNR and ArcA binding sites and results of EMS assays suggest that FNR and ArcA likely inhibit kgtP expression through binding to the –35 region of kgtP promoter and occluding the occupancy of RNA polymerases. Gene c5038 can be specifically induced by KG, whereas the expression of kgtP does not respond to KG, yet can be stimulated during growth on glycerol. In addition, c5038 and kgtP expression were further shown to be controlled by different alternative sigma factors RpoN and RpoS, respectively. Furthermore, dual-strain competition assays in a murine model showed that c5038 mutant but not kgtP mutant was outcompeted by the wild-type strain during the colonization of murine bladders and kidneys, highlighting the importance of C5038 under in vivo conditions. Therefore, different transcriptional regulation led to distinct roles played by C5038 and KgtP in KG utilization and fitness in vivo. This study thus potentially expanded our understanding of UPEC pathobiology.
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- Wentong Cai
- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Microbiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Huazhong Agricultural University Wuhan, China
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing, China
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- School of Bioengineering, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Microbial Engineering, Qilu University of Technology Jinan, China
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- Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityNanjing, China; Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural UniversityNanjing, China
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Pathogenic bacteria must contend with immune systems that actively restrict the availability of nutrients and cofactors, and create a hostile growth environment. To deal with these hostile environments, pathogenic bacteria have evolved or acquired virulence determinants that aid in the acquisition of nutrients. This connection between pathogenesis and nutrition may explain why regulators of metabolism in nonpathogenic bacteria are used by pathogenic bacteria to regulate both metabolism and virulence. Such coordinated regulation is presumably advantageous because it conserves carbon and energy by aligning synthesis of virulence determinants with the nutritional environment. In Gram-positive bacterial pathogens, at least three metabolite-responsive global regulators, CcpA, CodY, and Rex, have been shown to coordinate the expression of metabolism and virulence genes. In this chapter, we discuss how environmental challenges alter metabolism, the regulators that respond to this altered metabolism, and how these regulators influence the host-pathogen interaction.
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Shimizu K. Metabolic Regulation of a Bacterial Cell System with Emphasis on Escherichia coli Metabolism. ISRN BIOCHEMISTRY 2013; 2013:645983. [PMID: 25937963 PMCID: PMC4393010 DOI: 10.1155/2013/645983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2012] [Accepted: 10/25/2012] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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It is quite important to understand the overall metabolic regulation mechanism of bacterial cells such as Escherichia coli from both science (such as biochemistry) and engineering (such as metabolic engineering) points of view. Here, an attempt was made to clarify the overall metabolic regulation mechanism by focusing on the roles of global regulators which detect the culture or growth condition and manipulate a set of metabolic pathways by modulating the related gene expressions. For this, it was considered how the cell responds to a variety of culture environments such as carbon (catabolite regulation), nitrogen, and phosphate limitations, as well as the effects of oxygen level, pH (acid shock), temperature (heat shock), and nutrient starvation.
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- Kazuyuki Shimizu
- Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Iizuka 820-8502, Japan
- Institute of Advanced Bioscience, Keio University, Yamagata, Tsuruoka 997-0017, Japan
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Citric acid cycle and the origin of MARS. Trends Biochem Sci 2013; 38:222-8. [PMID: 23415030 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2013.01.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2012] [Revised: 01/01/2013] [Accepted: 01/09/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The vertebrate multiaminoacyl tRNA synthetase complex (MARS) is an assemblage of nine aminoacyl tRNA synthetases (ARSs) and three non-synthetase scaffold proteins, aminoacyl tRNA synthetase complex-interacting multifunctional protein (AIMP)1, AIMP2, and AIMP3. The evolutionary origin of the MARS is unclear, as is the significance of the inclusion of only nine of 20 tRNA synthetases. Eight of the nine amino acids corresponding to ARSs of the MARS are derived from two citric acid cycle intermediates, α-ketoglutatrate and oxaloacetate. We propose that the metabolic link with the citric acid cycle, the appearance of scaffolding proteins AIMP2 and AIMP3, and the subsequent disappearance of the glyoxylate cycle, together facilitated the origin of the MARS in a common ancestor of metazoans and choanoflagellates.
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Isabella VM, Clark VL. Deep sequencing-based analysis of the anaerobic stimulon in Neisseria gonorrhoeae. BMC Genomics 2011; 12:51. [PMID: 21251255 PMCID: PMC3032703 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-12-51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2010] [Accepted: 01/20/2011] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Maintenance of an anaerobic denitrification system in the obligate human pathogen, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, suggests that an anaerobic lifestyle may be important during the course of infection. Furthermore, mounting evidence suggests that reduction of host-produced nitric oxide has several immunomodulary effects on the host. However, at this point there have been no studies analyzing the complete gonococcal transcriptome response to anaerobiosis. Here we performed deep sequencing to compare the gonococcal transcriptomes of aerobically and anaerobically grown cells. Using the information derived from this sequencing, we discuss the implications of the robust transcriptional response to anaerobic growth. RESULTS We determined that 198 chromosomal genes were differentially expressed (~10% of the genome) in response to anaerobic conditions. We also observed a large induction of genes encoded within the cryptic plasmid, pJD1. Validation of RNA-seq data using translational-lacZ fusions or RT-PCR demonstrated the RNA-seq results to be very reproducible. Surprisingly, many genes of prophage origin were induced anaerobically, as well as several transcriptional regulators previously unknown to be involved in anaerobic growth. We also confirmed expression and regulation of a small RNA, likely a functional equivalent of fnrS in the Enterobacteriaceae family. We also determined that many genes found to be responsive to anaerobiosis have also been shown to be responsive to iron and/or oxidative stress. CONCLUSIONS Gonococci will be subject to many forms of environmental stress, including oxygen-limitation, during the course of infection. Here we determined that the anaerobic stimulon in gonococci was larger than previous studies would suggest. Many new targets for future research have been uncovered, and the results derived from this study may have helped to elucidate factors or mechanisms of virulence that may have otherwise been overlooked.
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- Vincent M Isabella
- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Box 672, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester, Box 672, 601 Elmwood Avenue, Rochester, NY 14642, USA
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Meyer FM, Gerwig J, Hammer E, Herzberg C, Commichau FM, Völker U, Stülke J. Physical interactions between tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes in Bacillus subtilis: evidence for a metabolon. Metab Eng 2010; 13:18-27. [PMID: 20933603 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2010.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/20/2010] [Revised: 10/01/2010] [Accepted: 10/04/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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The majority of all proteins of a living cell is active in complexes rather than in an isolated way. These protein-protein interactions are of high relevance for many biological functions. In addition to many well established protein complexes an increasing number of protein-protein interactions, which form rather transient complexes has recently been discovered. The formation of such complexes seems to be a common feature especially for metabolic pathways. In the Gram-positive model organism Bacillus subtilis, we identified a protein complex of three citric acid cycle enzymes. This complex consists of the citrate synthase, the isocitrate dehydrogenase, and the malate dehydrogenase. Moreover, fumarase and aconitase interact with malate dehydrogenase and with each other. These five enzymes catalyze sequential reaction of the TCA cycle. Thus, this interaction might be important for a direct transfer of intermediates of the TCA cycle and thus for elevated metabolic fluxes via substrate channeling. In addition, we discovered a link between the TCA cycle and gluconeogenesis through a flexible interaction of two proteins: the association between the malate dehydrogenase and phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase is directly controlled by the metabolic flux. The phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase links the TCA cycle with gluconeogenesis and is essential for B. subtilis growing on gluconeogenic carbon sources. Only under gluconeogenic growth conditions an interaction of these two proteins is detectable and disappears under glycolytic growth conditions.
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- Frederik M Meyer
- Department of General Microbiology, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Grisebachstrasse 8, D-37077 Göttingen, Germany
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Han SO, Inui M, Yukawa H. Effect of carbon source availability and growth phase on expression of Corynebacterium glutamicum genes involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle and glyoxylate bypass. Microbiology (Reading) 2008; 154:3073-3083. [DOI: 10.1099/mic.0.2008/019828-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023] Open
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- Sung Ok Han
- College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul 136-701, Republic of Korea
- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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- Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Kyoto 619-0292, Japan
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Fuchs S, Pané-Farré J, Kohler C, Hecker M, Engelmann S. Anaerobic gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:4275-89. [PMID: 17384184 PMCID: PMC1913399 DOI: 10.1128/jb.00081-07] [Citation(s) in RCA: 235] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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An investigation of gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus after a switch from aerobic to anaerobic growth was initiated by using the proteomic and transcriptomic approaches. In the absence of external electron acceptors like oxygen or nitrate, an induction of glycolytic enzymes was observed. At the same time the amount of tricarboxylic acid cycle enzymes was very low. NAD is regenerated by mixed acid and butanediol fermentation, as indicated by an elevated synthesis level of fermentation enzymes like lactate dehydrogenases (Ldh1 and Ldh2), alcohol dehydrogenases (AdhE and Adh), alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase (BudA1), acetolactate synthase (BudB), and acetoin reductase (SACOL0111) as well as an accumulation of fermentation products as lactate and acetate. Moreover, the transcription of genes possibly involved in secretion of lactate (SACOL2363) and formate (SACOL0301) was found to be induced. The formation of acetyl-coenzyme A or acetyl-phosphate might be catalyzed by pyruvate formate lyase, whose synthesis was found to be strongly induced as well. Although nitrate was not present, the expression of genes related to nitrate respiration (NarH, NarI, and NarJ) and nitrate reduction (NirD) was found to be upregulated. Of particular interest, oxygen concentration might affect the virulence properties of S. aureus by regulating the expression of some virulence-associated genes such as pls, hly, splC and splD, epiG, and isaB. To date, the mechanism of anaerobic gene expression in S. aureus has not been fully characterized. In addition to srrA the mRNA levels of several other regulatory genes with yet unknown functions (e.g., SACOL0201, SACOL2360, and SACOL2658) were found to be upregulated during anaerobic growth, indicating a role in the regulation of anaerobic gene expression.
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- Stephan Fuchs
- Institut für Mikrobiologie, Ernst Moritz Arndt Universität, F. L. Jahn Str. 15, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Zigha A, Rosenfeld E, Schmitt P, Duport C. The redox regulator Fnr is required for fermentative growth and enterotoxin synthesis in Bacillus cereus F4430/73. J Bacteriol 2007; 189:2813-24. [PMID: 17259311 PMCID: PMC1855811 DOI: 10.1128/jb.01701-06] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Glucose-grown cells of Bacillus cereus respond to anaerobiosis and low extracellular oxidoreduction potentials (ORP), notably by enhancing enterotoxin production. This response involves the ResDE two-component system. We searched the B. cereus genome for other redox response regulators potentially involved in this adaptive process, and we identified one gene encoding a protein predicted to have an amino acid sequence 58% identical (80% similar) to that of the Bacillus subtilis Fnr redox regulator. The fnr gene of the food-borne pathogen B. cereus F4430/73 has been cloned and partially characterized. We showed that fnr was up-regulated during anaerobic fermentation, especially when fermentation occurred at low ORP (under highly reducing conditions). The expression of fnr was down-regulated in the presence of O(2) and nitrate which, unlike fumarate, stimulated the respiratory pathways. The inactivation of B. cereus fnr abolished fermentative growth but only moderately affected aerobic and anaerobic nitrate respiratory growth. Analyses of glucose by-products and the transcription profiles of key catabolic genes confirmed the strong regulatory impact of Fnr on B. cereus fermentative pathways. More importantly, the fnr mutation strongly decreased the expression of PlcR-dependent hbl and nhe genes, leading to the absence of hemolysin BL (Hbl) and nonhemolytic enterotoxin (Nhe) secretion by the mutant. These data indicate that fnr is essential for both fermentation and toxinogenesis. The results also suggest that both Fnr and the ResDE two-component system belong to a redox regulatory pathway that functions at least partially independently of the pleiotropic virulence gene regulator PlcR to regulate enterotoxin gene expression.
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- Assia Zigha
- Université d'Avignon-INRA, UMR A408, Sécurité et Qualité des Produits d'Origine Végétale, Avignon F-84029, France
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Pan BS, Wolyniak CJ, Brenna JT. The intramolecular δ15N of lysine responds to respiratory status in Paracoccus denitrificans. Amino Acids 2007; 33:631-8. [PMID: 17252306 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-006-0487-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2006] [Accepted: 11/15/2006] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Presented here is the first experimental evidence that natural, intramolecular, isotope ratios are sensitive to physiological status, based on observations of intramolecular delta(15)N of lysine in the mitochondrial mimic Paracoccus denitrificans. Paracoccus denitrificans, a versatile, gram-negative bacterium, was grown either aerobically or anaerobically on isotopically-characterized ammonium as sole cell-nitrogen source. Nitrogen isotope composition of the biomass with respect to source ammonium was Delta(15)N(cell - NH4) = delta(15) - delta(15)N(NH4) = -6.2 +/- 1.2 per thousand for whole cells under aerobic respiration, whereas cells grown anaerobically produced no net fractionation (Delta(15)N(cell - NH4) = -0.3 +/- 0.23 per thousand). Fractionation of (15)N between protein nitrogen and total cell nitrogen increased during anaerobic respiration and suggests that residual nitrogen-containing compounds in bacterial cell membranes are isotopically lighter under anaerobic respiration. In aerobic cells, the lysine intramolecular difference between peptide and sidechain nitrogen is negligible, but in anaerobic cells was a remarkable Delta(15)N(p - s) = delta(15)N(peptide) - delta(15)N(sidechain) = +11.0 per thousand, driven predominantly by enrichment at the peptide N. Consideration of known lysine pathways suggests this to be likely due to enhanced synthesis of peptidoglycans in the anaerobic state. These data indicate that distinct pathway branching ratios associated with microbial respiration can be detected by natural intramolecular Deltadelta(15)N measurements, and are the first in vivo observations of position-specific measurements of nitrogen isotope fractionation.
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- B S Pan
- Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, U.S.A
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Even S, Burguière P, Auger S, Soutourina O, Danchin A, Martin-Verstraete I. Global control of cysteine metabolism by CymR in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 2006; 188:2184-97. [PMID: 16513748 PMCID: PMC1428143 DOI: 10.1128/jb.188.6.2184-2197.2006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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YrzC has previously been identified as a repressor controlling ytmI expression via its regulation of YtlI activator synthesis in Bacillus subtilis. We identified YrzC as a master regulator of sulfur metabolism. Gene expression profiles of B. subtilis delta yrzC mutant and wild-type strains grown in minimal medium with sulfate as the sole sulfur source were compared. In the mutant, increased expression was observed for 24 genes previously identified as repressed in the presence of sulfate. Since several genes involved in the pathways leading to cysteine formation were found, we propose to rename YrzC CymR, for "cysteine metabolism repressor." A CymR-dependent binding to the promoter region of the ytlI, ssuB, tcyP, yrrT, yxeK, cysK, or ydbM gene was demonstrated using gel shift experiments. A potential CymR target site, TAAWNCN2ANTWNAN3ATMGGAATTW, was found in the promoter region of these genes. In a DNase footprint experiment, the protected region in the ytlI promoter region contained this consensus sequence. Partial deletion or introduction of point mutations in this sequence confirmed its involvement in ytlI, yrrT, and yxeK regulation. The addition of O-acetylserine in gel shift experiments prevented CymR-dependent binding to DNA for all of the targets characterized. Transcriptome analysis of a delta cymR mutant and the wild-type strain also brought out significant changes in the expression level of a large set of genes related to stress response or to transition toward anaerobiosis.
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- Sergine Even
- Unité de Génétique des Génomes Bactériens, Institut Pasteur, URA CNRS 2171, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France
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Effect of fadR gene knockout on the metabolism of Escherichia coli based on analyses of protein expressions, enzyme activities and intracellular metabolite concentrations. Enzyme Microb Technol 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.enzmictec.2005.07.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lin H, Bennett GN, San KY. Chemostat culture characterization of Escherichia coli mutant strains metabolically engineered for aerobic succinate production: A study of the modified metabolic network based on metabolite profile, enzyme activity, and gene expression profile. Metab Eng 2005; 7:337-52. [PMID: 16099188 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymben.2005.06.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2005] [Revised: 06/02/2005] [Accepted: 06/13/2005] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Various Escherichia coli mutant strains designed for succinate production under aerobic conditions were characterized in chemostat. The metabolite profiles, enzyme activities, and gene expression profiles were studied to better understand the metabolic network operating in these mutant strains. The most efficient succinate producing mutant strain HL27659k was able to achieve a succinate yield of 0.91 mol/mol glucose at a dilution rate of 0.1/h. This strain has the five following mutations: sdhAB, (ackA-pta), poxB, iclR, and ptsG. Four other strains involved in this study were HL2765k, HL276k, HL2761k, and HL51276k. Strain HL2765k has mutations in sdhAB, (ackA-pta), poxB and iclR, strain HL276k has mutations in sdhAB, (ackA-pta) and poxB, strain HL2761k has mutations in sdhAB, (ackA-pta), poxB and icd, and strain HL51276k has mutations in iclR, icd, sdhAB, (ackA-pta) and poxB. Enzyme activity data showed strain HL27659k has substantially higher citrate synthase and malate dehydrogenase activities than the other four strains. The data also showed that only iclR mutation strains exhibited isocitrate lyase and malate synthase activities. Gene expression profiles also complemented the studies of enzyme activity and metabolites from chemostat cultures. The results showed that the succinate synthesis pathways engineered in strain HL27659k were highly efficient, yielding succinate as the only major product produced under aerobic conditions. Strain HL27659k was the only strain without pyruvate accumulation, and its acetate production was the least among all the mutant strains examined.
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- Henry Lin
- Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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Peng L, Arauzo-Bravo MJ, Shimizu K. Metabolic flux analysis for appcmutantEscherichia colibased on13C-labelling experiments together with enzyme activity assays and intracellular metabolite measurements. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2004. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.2004.tb09562.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Kim HJ, Roux A, Sonenshein AL. Direct and indirect roles of CcpA in regulation of Bacillus subtilis Krebs cycle genes. Mol Microbiol 2002; 45:179-90. [PMID: 12100558 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.03003.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Carbon catabolite repression of the Bacillus subtilis citrate synthase (citZ) and aconitase (citB) genes, previously known to be regulated by CcpC, was shown to depend on CcpA as well. Transcription of the citZ gene was partially derepressed in ccpA and ccpC single mutants and fully derepressed in a ccpA ccpC double mutant. DNase I footprinting studies showed that CcpA binds to a catabolite-responsive element (cre) site located at positions +80 to +97 with respect to the transcription start site, whereas CcpC binds at positions -14 to +6 and +16 to +36. Mutations in the citZ cre site greatly altered CcpA binding and repression. A ccpA null mutation also caused partial derepression of citB. Disruption of citrate synthase activity, however, suppressed the effect of the ccpA mutation, suggesting that increased citrate accumulation in a ccpA mutant partially inactivates CcpC and causes partial derepression of citB. Therefore, CcpA controls expression of Krebs cycle genes directly by regulating transcription of citZ and in-directly by regulating availability of citrate, the inducer for CcpC.
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- Hyun-Jin Kim
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
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Kim HJ, Jourlin-Castelli C, Kim SI, Sonenshein AL. Regulation of the bacillus subtilis ccpC gene by ccpA and ccpC. Mol Microbiol 2002; 43:399-410. [PMID: 11985717 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2958.2002.02751.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Bacillus subtilis CcpC, a LysR-type transcriptional regulator, represses the transcription of genes for citrate synthase (citZ) and aconitase (citB) in response to citrate availability. Transcription of ccpC was shown to initiate at two promoters, P1, located just upstream of the ccpC gene, and P2, located within or upstream of the neighbouring ykuL gene. Expression from the ccpC-specific promoter (P1) was negatively regulated by CcpC but independent of the carbon source in the medium. Gel shift and DNase I footprinting experiments revealed that CcpC binds to an interrupted dyad sequence that surrounds the ccpC transcriptional start point. Transcription of ccpC from the upstream promoter (P2) was repressed by glucose in a CcpA-dependent manner. A putative CcpA binding site (cre) was identified upstream of the -35 region of the P1 promoter. Transcriptional fusion studies demonstrated that glucose repression of ccpC expression from the P2 promoter depends on this cre site. In addition, DNase I footprinting experiments showed that CcpA specifically binds to this cre site and that the introduction of mutations (cre*) into this site abolished the binding. These results suggest that CcpA may control CcpC synthesis by acting as a road-block to readthrough transcription from the P2 promoter.
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- Hyun-Jin Kim
- Department of Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
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Tobisch S, Zühlke D, Bernhardt J, Stülke J, Hecker M. Role of CcpA in regulation of the central pathways of carbon catabolism in Bacillus subtilis. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:6996-7004. [PMID: 10559165 PMCID: PMC94174 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.22.6996-7004.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Bacillus subtilis two-dimensional (2D) protein index contains almost all glycolytic and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle enzymes, among them the most abundant housekeeping proteins of growing cells. Therefore, a comprehensive study on the regulation of glycolysis and the TCA cycle was initiated. Whereas expression of genes encoding the upper and lower parts of glycolysis (pgi, pfk, fbaA, and pykA) is not affected by the glucose supply, there is an activation of the glycolytic gap gene and the pgk operon by glucose. This activation seems to be dependent on the global regulator CcpA, as shown by 2D polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis analysis as well as by transcriptional analysis. Furthermore, a high glucose concentration stimulates production and excretion of organic acids (overflow metabolism) in the wild type but not in the ccpA mutant. Finally, CcpA is involved in strong glucose repression of almost all TCA cycle genes. In addition to TCA cycle and glycolytic enzymes, the levels of many other proteins are affected by the ccpA mutation. Our data suggest (i) that ccpA mutants are unable to activate glycolysis or carbon overflow metabolism and (ii) that CcpA might be a key regulator molecule, controlling a superregulon of glucose catabolism.
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- S Tobisch
- Institut für Mikrobiologie und Molekularbiologie, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, D-17487 Greifswald, Germany
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Nakano MM, Zhu Y, Haga K, Yoshikawa H, Sonenshein AL, Zuber P. A mutation in the 3-phosphoglycerate kinase gene allows anaerobic growth of Bacillus subtilis in the absence of ResE kinase. J Bacteriol 1999; 181:7087-97. [PMID: 10559176 PMCID: PMC94185 DOI: 10.1128/jb.181.22.7087-7097.1999] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The Bacillus subtilis ResD-ResE two-component signal transduction system is essential for aerobic and anaerobic respiration. A spontaneous suppressor mutant that expresses ResD-controlled genes and grows anaerobically in the absence of the ResE histidine kinase was isolated. In addition, aerobic expression of ResD-controlled genes in the suppressed strain was constitutive and occurred at a much higher level than that observed in the wild-type strain. The suppressing mutation, which mapped to pgk, the gene encoding 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, failed to suppress a resD mutation, suggesting that the suppressing mutation creates a pathway for phosphorylation of the response regulator, ResD, which is independent of the cognate sensor kinase, ResE. The pgk-1 mutant exhibited very low but measurable 3-phosphoglycerate kinase activity compared to the wild-type strain. The results suggest that accumulation of a glycolytic intermediate, probably 1, 3-diphosphoglycerate, is responsible for the observed effect of the pgk-1 mutation on anaerobiosis of resE mutant cells.
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- M M Nakano
- Department of Biochemistry, Louisiana State University Medical Center, Shreveport, Louisiana 71130, USA.
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Microorganisms have evolved intricate signal transduction mechanisms that respond both to dioxygen per se and to the consequences imparted by dioxygen on the metabolism of the cell. Escherichia coli provides examples of both types of signal sensing mechanisms, including FNR and the Arc system. The factors involved in these diverse sensory systems are proving to have a pervasive impact on controlling gene expression and cellular physiology. Similar signal transduction systems are prevalent in a diverse range of microorganisms.
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- G Sawers
- Nitrogen Fixation Laboratory, John Innes Centre, Norwich, NR4 7UH, UK.
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